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Guest Speakers |
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Mon. 5/16 9:00-11:00 Ed. 129 |
• Course overview • Questionnaire • Exploring beliefs & attitudes • Defining CLT (Communicative Language Teaching) |
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• Teaching by Principles, pp. 13-17; 34-35 • Fill out EFL Trends Questionnaire • Optional: Teaching by Principles, pp. 16-37 |
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Wed. 5/18 9:00 Ed. 129 9:45 (?)-- Leave for site visit |
• An Immersion Program: A Case Study • Trip to Garfield Elementary School |
Jerry Bryan Jan Byers Other staff at Garfield |
• Thompson, “Some Misconceptions about Communicative Language Teaching” (handout)—Read your assigned section; summarize on the colored notecard • Teaching by Principles, pp. 42-46 • Optional: Teaching by Principles, pp. 176-186
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Mon., 5/23 9:00-11:00 Ed. 129 |
• Teaching multilevel classes • Making interaction work • Role of vocabulary in ELT
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• Teaching by Principles, pp. 375-380 • Optional: “Vocabulary Learning and Teaching” (handout) • Aslan, Dowling, Kilickaya, “Words, Words, Words: Making Vocabulary Learning More Fun” (handout) |
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Wed. 5/25 9:00-11:00 Meet in Edu- Cation 406, ELI Learning Center |
• Focus on the Learner I: Learning Styles and Strategies • How to Set Up and Manage Multimodal Learning Centers • Design Your Own Language Learning Center |
Donna Shaw
(in the afternoon meet staff at CV High School and LP Middle School) |
• Teaching by Principles, pp. 214-216—Fill out the Extroversion/Introversion test • Optional: Teaching by Principles, pp. 210-213; continued in the middle of p. 216 |
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Mon. 5/30 (no class) |
Memorial Day Holiday
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Wed. 6/1 (no class) |
NAFSA Conference, Seattle, WA
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Mon. 6/6 9:00-11:00 Ed. 129 |
• Focus on the Learner II: Cooperative Learning |
Don and Maxine Prickel |
• Ellis and Whalen, “ Keys to Cooperative Learning: 35 Ways to Keep Kids Responsible, Challenged, and Most of All, Cooperative (handout) |
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Wed. 6/8 9:00-11:00 Ed. 129 |
• Making vocabulary learning fun • Teaching Large Multilevel Classes • Wrap-up of Trends 1
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• Teaching Large Multilevel Classes, pp. 7-15 “Eleven priniciples of coping with large multilevel classes” • Optional: Teaching Large Multilevel Classes, pp. 1-6 “Introduction” and “Benefits and challenges of the large multilevel class”
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